The Cajuns,also known as Louisiana Acadians,,are an ethnic group mainly living in the U.S. state of Louisiana. They also live in the Canadian maritimes provinces consisting in part of the descendants of the original Acadian exiles—French-speakers from Acadia (L'Acadie) in what are now the Maritimes of Eastern Canada.
Opelousas is a small city in,and the parish seat of,St. Landry Parish,Louisiana,United States. Interstate 49 and U.S. Route 190 were constructed with a junction here. According to the 2020 census,Opelousas has a population of 15,786,and is currently declining at a rate of -1.16% annually and its population has decreased by -6.53% since the most recent census,which recorded a population of 16,634 in 2010. Opelousas is the principal city for the Opelousas-Eunice Micropolitan Statistical Area,which had an estimated population of 80,808 in 2020. Opelousas is also the fourth largest city in the Lafayette-Acadiana Combined Statistical Area,which has a population of 537,947.
Esteban Rodríguez Miróy Sabater,KOS,also known as Esteban Miro and Estevan Miro,was a Spanish army officer and governor of the Spanish American provinces of Louisiana and Florida.
Brigadier-General Charles Lawrence was a British military officer who,as lieutenant governor and subsequently governor of Nova Scotia,is perhaps best known for overseeing the Expulsion of the Acadians and settling the New England Planters in Nova Scotia. He was born in Plymouth,England,and died in Halifax,Nova Scotia. According to historian Elizabeth Griffiths,Lawrence was seen as a "competent","efficient" officer with a "service record that had earned him fairly rapid promotion,a person of considerable administrative talent who was trusted by both Cornwallis and Hopson." He is buried in the crypt of St. Paul's Church (Halifax).
The Capture of Fort Bute signalled the opening of Spanish intervention in the American Revolutionary War on the side of France and the United States. Mustering an ad hoc army of Spanish regulars,Acadian militia,and native levies under Gilbert Antoine de St. Maxent,Bernardo de Gálvez,the Governor of Spanish Louisiana stormed and captured the small British frontier post on Bayou Manchac on September 7,1779.
Étienne Perier or Étienne de Perier,also known as Perier the Elder,was a French naval officer and governor of French Louisiana from 1726 to 1733. His time as governor included some notable achievements,including the construction of the first levee along the Mississippi River in 1727. In response to the Natchez Revolt,he attempted to completely destroy the Natchez people,which increased Native American hostility toward the French in the territory. Because he failed to secure the safety of the colony,Perier was recalled as governor in March 1733. He later distinguished himself as a naval officer and privateer,including during the capture of HMS Northumberland in 1744.
Charles Dominique Joseph Bouligny was a lawyer and politician,elected as U.S. Senator from Louisiana,serving from 1824 to 1829. He had earlier served in the territorial House of Representatives. Of French and Spanish descent,he was brother to Louis Bouligny,a state representative,and uncle of John Edward Bouligny,who was elected as U.S. Representative from New Orleans.
Carl Anthony Brasseaux is an American historian and educator. He specialized in French Colonial North America,particularly of Louisiana and the Cajun people. He helped to pioneer the field of Cajun history,and his published works on this topic represent the first serious,in-depth examination of the history of the ethnic group.
Jean-Jacques Blaise d'Abbadie (1726–1765) was the French Director-general of the Colony of Louisiana. He served from February 1763 until he died in office two years later,in New Orleans.
Spanish Louisiana was a governorate and administrative district of the Viceroyalty of New Spain from 1762 to 1801 that consisted of a vast territory in the center of North America encompassing the western basin of the Mississippi River plus New Orleans. The area had originally been claimed and controlled by France,which had named it La Louisiane in honor of King Louis XIV in 1682. Spain secretly acquired the territory from France near the end of the Seven Years' War by the terms of the Treaty of Fontainebleau (1762). The actual transfer of authority was a slow process,and after Spain finally attempted to fully replace French authorities in New Orleans in 1767,French residents staged an uprising which the new Spanish colonial governor did not suppress until 1769. Spain also took possession of the trading post of St. Louis and all of Upper Louisiana in the late 1760s,though there was little Spanish presence in the wide expanses of the "Illinois Country".
Lyle Saxon was a writer and journalist who reported for The Times-Picayune in New Orleans,Louisiana. He directed the Federal Writers' Project Works Progress Administration (WPA) guide to Louisiana.
Fort Rosalie was built by the French in 1716 within the territory of the Natchez Native Americans and it was part of the French colonial empire in the present-day city of Natchez,Mississippi.
Bayou Manchac is an 18-mile-long (29 km) bayou in southeast Louisiana,USA. First called the Iberville River by its French discoverers,the bayou was once a very important waterway linking the Mississippi River to the Amite River. East Baton Rouge Parish lies on its northern side,while its southern side is divided between Ascension Parish and Iberville Parish. The large unincorporated community of Prairieville and the city of St. Gabriel both lie on its southern side.
Fort New Richmond was built by the British in 1779 on the east bank of the Mississippi River in what was later to become Baton Rouge,Louisiana. The Spanish took control of the fort in 1779 and renamed it Fort San Carlos.
Louisiana French is an umbrella term for the dialects and varieties of the French language spoken traditionally in colonial Lower Louisiana. As of today Louisiana French is primarily used in the U.S. state of Louisiana,specifically in the southern parishes.
The New Orleans Bee was an American broadsheet newspaper in New Orleans,Louisiana,founded on September 1,1827,by François Delaup and originally located at 94 St. Peter Street,between Royal and Bourbon.
Attakapas Parish, a former parish (county) in southern Louisiana,was one of the twelve parishes in the Territory of Orleans,newly defined by the United States federal government following its Louisiana Purchase in 1803. At its core was the Poste des Attakapas trading post,which developed as the current city of St. Martinville.
Francisco Domingo Joseph Bouligny y Paret was a high-ranking Spanish military and political figure in Spanish Louisiana. As a francophone in Spanish service,he was a bridge between Creole and French Louisiana and Spain following the transfer of the territory from France to Spain. Bouligny served as lieutenant governor under Bernardo de Gálvez,founded the city of New Iberia in 1779,and served as acting military governor in 1799.
Fort Bute (1766-1779) was a colonial fort built by the British in 1766 to protect the confluence of Bayou Manchac with the Mississippi River and was named in honor of the Earl of Bute. Fort Bute was located on Bayou Manchac,about 115 miles (185 km) up the Mississippi River from New Orleans,on the far western border of British West Florida. It was one of the three outposts maintained by the British in the lower Mississippi along with Fort Panmure and the Baton Rouge outpost.
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